Title:
A dangerous idea : the Scopes trial, the original fight over science in schools
Author:
Publication Date:
2025
Publication Information:
New York, NY : Bloomsbury Children's Books, 2025.
©2025
Physical Description:
278 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781547612215
Abstract:
"In 1925, when Tennesse lawmakers banned the teaching of evolution in public schools, teacher John Scopes challenged the law--and set off a gripping circus of a legal battle. Two masterminds faced off in court in a blistering debate over creationism and natural selection. A narrative nonfiction book on the Scopes Monkey Trial"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
The drugstore plan -- The real target -- Clarence and Will -- Boy orator of the Platte -- "Whatever degrades another degrades me" -- Two tall men, talking -- Proofs and perversions -- Darwinism goes to school -- Better to destroy -- "What are mothers to do" -- The road to Dayton -- The circus comes to town -- In the beginning -- To strangle puppies -- Prayers and chairs -- Four witnesses and a textbook -- Speechless -- The greatest speech -- Something brand new -- Any question they please -- I am not afraid -- Verdicts -- Afterlives and legends -- A victory -- The evolution of everything.
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Subject Term:
Language:
English
Audience:
Ages 10-14
Grades 7-9
